From a business perspective, law firms offering excellent legal work often struggle to be as strong on the business side, especially when building efficient workflows. To build a new firm from the ground up, he asked: "If you were to re-imagine how to build a law firm without... the prior biases of how it's always been done, how would you do it?"

Departing from tradition, White conceived Laurel Employment Law as an "AI-Native" firm. Even before hiring the firm's first attorney, he integrated Eve as the company's foundational technology.
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Today, the firm’s production process begins and ends with Eve, from demand letters to complaints, to deposition prep, freeing lawyers to focus on high-value work like case strategy, relationship management, and taking depositions.
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Their attorneys refine and review the initial document drafts for the final, high-level strategic input: "The truth is it's a foundation stone for all of our products. So whether that's demand letters, complaints, or discovery, everything we do starts at Eve from a work product perspective." — Joshua White, CEO, Laurel Employment Law

By combining a business-first mindset with Eve's AI engine, Laurel Employment Law has achieved explosive growth and a significant competitive advantage.

- Efficiency and Speed enables the firm to counteract defense teams’ efforts to delay, giving them a competitive advantage. With this edge, the firm feels confident focusing resources and expertise into its cases, showing up for their clients better prepared and energized. 

- Reliable, Intelligent, Comprehensive Document Drafting With Eve handling the initial heavy lifting—information gathering, source checking, document drafting, and more—teams have more time to focus on final strategic reviews and approvals. 

- Award-Winning Culture The workflow efficiency enabled by Eve AI and a business-first mindset has contributed to a fun, upbeat, and “radically optimistic culture,” according to White. Laurel employees agree. In 2025, they nominated their firm for an award, winning recognition as California's #2 best workplaces.

- Higher-Quality New Hires Becoming an AI-Native firm has played a critical role in attracting tech-forward, innovative talent, shaping the legal profession's future. 

- Real-Time Intelligence In high-stakes moments like during mediations, White uses Eve in real time to get "perfect intelligence" from the case file, which builds credibility and demonstrates confidence. 

- Enhanced ("Super-Powered") Senior Associates Eve empowers staff to work more cases, and achieve more in those cases—making their best even better. 

- AI Team Members  With robust information at their fingertips and hours of organization and prep time saved, White likens Eve to another member of the team: